US to keep control over internet

[seeker]

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/06/30/internet.control.ap/index.html

P.S.
the scary part is this:

"Some countries, he said, might withdraw support they had for ICANN on the premise it would one day take over the root servers.

In a worst-case scenario, countries refusing to accept U.S. control could establish their own separate domain name system and thus fracture the Internet into more than one network. That means two users typing the same domain name could reach entirely different Web sites, depending on where they are."

 

[jdk]

Nice article. Very informative

 

[missedcall]

you may want to look at this : http://european.nl.orsn.net/
of course is not an offiicial mirror but already used by some ISP's

 

[VisualDigits]

very interesting, but the internet has always been American!

 

[seeker]

very interesting, but the internet has always been American!

lol
that was funny.
but this is not the humor section of the forum.

 

[PapaStiz]

haha. I will start my own internet. Who would like to join?! Taking applications. I will give your very own .stiz tld. haha

 

[dotcomgiant]

It all boils down to the oldest linear equation in human relations: politics

But the question is will our children have one Internet to go to, or just the Internet their government lets them go to?

 

[aldwin]

I wouldn't be surprised that in case of a war the US simply shut down Internet and forbid GPS use to the enemy nation if needed.

This is why I think that root servers outside the US are needed. And this is also why the EU is building Galileo, as a counterpart to GPS system.

 

[OgieOgalthorpe]

The 13 root servers have several mirrors and they are not all located in the United States (http://www.root-servers.org).

 

[LazyD]

Well the US did create the Internet,I think they should retain control over it.

 

[seeker]

Well the US did create the Internet,I think they should retain control over it.

you mean CERN in Swtizerland?
(www)?

that was from my memory, here is the actual link
http://www.cern.ch

 

[dotDan]

Al Gore is American..

 

[seeker]

Al Gore is American..

I am sure he is.
I saw the votes he got...
he didnt get elected did he????

stick with CERN

 

[dotDan]

Hahaha, nope. We've had Bush in office--twice. Bad choice IMHO, but we get what we can take.

 

[nickb]

That means two users typing the same domain name could reach entirely different Web sites, depending on where they are."

that would bring the end to so many internet buisnesses that have international traffic. i dont think that could possibly work.

 

[Jeffreyw]

US controlling the internet is safer than the UN. :-D ...seriously.